Hello! It's been a while since you've seen birds or any other creatures in my layouts but these cuties from Maggie Holmes Shine collection were a perfect reason to make exception. Big fat chippies went so well together with the photo of my late dog, irresistible!

This is my first layout with Hip Kit Club December Kits, and just like always, this month's kits are a-m-a-z-i-n-g! The amount of products and how well they match together from different manufacturers, oh I feel so blessed. The only issue I'm having with the kits is that once I have time to dig in and start creating, I can't stop! There are so many beautiful things and I always have so many ideas it feels my head explodes. Hah, positive problem I think.

I started the layout with December Color Kit, I've never played before with Shimmerz paints so it was fun to experiment. And as the colors of the paints are really soft and pastel-like, I wanted to use Crate Paper Maggie Holmes "Shine" collection from Hip Kit Club December Main Kit to match the soft line. Creating process can be watched from the video above, hope you like it.

The page is full of fun techniques, the coolest is on the background as it was my first play with Prima Marketing Mica Powders. I mixed it up with Soft Gel and received wonderful clear paste. It's all on the video, enjoy watching!

In the picture is me and 13arts owner, my dear friend Aida Domisiewicz (link). She must be the kindest and pretties souls I've ever met, hope to see her soon again.

Hello! Clearly I should not do anything with my puny old laptop - these pictures are so badly edited that I'm tearing my hair off. Well, not literally but it sucks to not have a decent computer in use. My new laptop is in maintenance and this old is slow as a rubber boot. So, please understand and take a deep breath.

This layout is made for Create A Smile and as said on the video, it reminds me a lot of a book Fifty Shades of Grey as there's at least fifty shades of black and grey on the layout. It was so much fun to see how black Pan Pastel can look so different than black ink or black gesso. So much fun!

HO HO HO and Merry Christmas!
Today it's the final post in the event as it's Christmas Eve! So happy Holidays to everyone and joy to the world! I hope you've been following the "Countdown to Christmas" posts here in my and in Riikka's blogs.

But as it's just some hours before the Santa Claus starts giving away the gifts here in Finland it's also time to give you a gift. And it's in the form of a challenge.Riikka and me put our heads together and above you can see what we came up for you as inspiration! There's a sketch by Riikka and a colorful mood board by me! You can create anything you like with the duo - a layout, a card, an of the page project, a canvas... We just hope to inspire you!
As it is the Christmas Eve we have a big prize for you to win! To be in for the draw, you need to make something inspired by our duo, the mood board and the sketch. Then you need to do a blog post and using the linky tool to add the link to your post to the challenge.

You have until January 6th 2016 11.55 pm CET to participate and add your link. Then Riikka and me put again our heads together and raffle the winner. But be warned that there might be a something extra to entries we really like! The winner or winners will be then announced on both of our blog's on January 9st 2016. So be sure to stop by then to see if you've won!

Materials used: 13arts

For this big prize we don't have one but two sponsors! The price of this challenge is huge! From 7 Dots Studio we have the "December Memories" kit with some exclusive supplies and from 13arts we have the whole Winter Tales collection! How awesome is that? So get your project started and join in the fun! We can't wait to see what you make!

13arts is a Polish manufacturer specializing in scrapbook papers, embellishments and mixed media products. The company ships worldwide so you can go shopping whether you are from Europe or Asia! Please visit them on http://13arts.pl and look the amazing projects of the DT in the company blog http://13artspl.blogspot.fi.

7 Dots Studio is an European scrapbooking manufacturer of high quality scrapbooking products – papers, stickers, die-cuts, chipboards, stamps and stencils. Company's collections vary from clean, graphic designs to mixed-media grunge. All the 7 Dots Studio papers are perfect for mixed media. Please visit the company here 7dotsstudio.com and go for some additional inspiration in the company blog herehttp://7dotsstudio.com/archives/category/blog.

For this Sunday we chose the theme "stamping", I made a little video of using stamps in other than usual ways. I hope you like it and inspired by it!

But now to coolest part - our giveaway! You have a possibility to have two tickets to each giveaway by leaving a comment to both of our posts - a comment here gives you one and comment on Riikka's blog gives you another. Each of our Sunday giveaways is open until 30th December 11.59 pm CET and the winners of these raffles are announced on both of our blog's on January 1st 2016. So be sure to stop by on the first day of the new year to see if you've won!

Today's giveaway is sponsored by the one and only, super lovely Create a Smile. The name says it all: Create a smile stamps are made for cardmakers, scrapbookers, stampers - people, who like to create things that make others smile. The company's stamps are made from high quality photopolymer and are produced in Germany. Fun designs, cute images and punny sentiment are exactly what Create a Smile loves - and they create a smile! Please visit company site at: www.createasmilestamps.com and the blog over at: createasmilestamps.blogspot.de.

The price is a gift certificate worth 15 euros. Imagine how many smiles you could create with that! So leave a comment here and on Riikka's blog to be in for the giveaway. We wish you best of luck!